Dave Brubeck

Dave Brubeck turns 88 today.
Click here for a fantastic vintage video that unfortunately I can't embed. I'll only say that when the music's really grooving, it does indeed feel, on the bandstand, like a magic carpet ride.

Hands on buzzers, contestants. Here comes a jazz skill-testing question: What's odd about this version of that old Dizzy Gillespie chestnut A Night in Tunisia?
If you said, "Duh! The A sections are in 7/4," -- congratulations.